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Completed in 2009, the 89,700 sf, four-story LEED Gold certified Floral Vale office building was tightly designed to reduce the amount of building materials required while improving energy efficiency (28% energy saving design).Stormwater is managed through rain gardens and the smart building enables Tenants to monitor and manage their energy usage.

Solar Panel retrofit on 1920's residence provides majority of electric use for family of 3.  Porch added to provide southern exposiure.  Net metering and real-time tracking of energy use.

The new Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Complex is designed to support modern educational trends, such as small-group collaboration, hands-on learning, use of multimedia tools, smaller class sizes, and multidisciplinary approaches, while remaining flexible enough to respond to future pedagogical innovations. The complex is comprised of two buildings: a 32,000-square-foot technology building and a 100,000-square-foot science, engineering, and math building.

The three port authorities along the Delaware River--the Delaware River Port Authority, the South Jersey Port Corporation, and the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority--teamed up on a regional effort to improve the sustainability of their individual and collective operations. This initiative, called the Green Ports Initiative, will allow the participating authorities to have both immediate and long-range actions to meet their sustainability goals, operate with greater efficiency, and lessen their impact on the environment when fully implemented.

We just had our house built about 2 years ago and the builder used all energy efficient products from windows to appliances all with the energy star.Also they had a problem in the past with water erosion coming from the downspouts.

With ARAMARK as its commissioning agent, the new science building of Muhlenberg College (Allentown, Pa.) has been awarded a Silver Rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System. This is the first building on the college's campus to be LEED certified.

The Horticulture Center at the University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum is a complex of five structures. Located at the Arboretum's Bloomfield Farm, the project includes offices, vehicle storage, shops for carpentry, equipment maintenance and other "back of house" uses. The layout of the facility includes a "public courtyard" and a "work courtyard" which are arranged to allow safe access to the public facility for visitors, while permitting the daily horticulture activities to proceed easily.

This past June, Haverford Township’s Board of Commissioners voted in favor of a geothermal energy system for the proposed Community Recreation & Environmental Center, set to be completed in 2012. The facility will be located at Haverford Reserve, on the sprawling 160 acres of land the township has recently developed into a park and nature preserve. The space, located off of Darby and Marple roads in Haverford, was the former home of Haverford State Hospital, which was closed by the state in 1998.

Sustainability Narrative: Not just another LEED Gold building, Colorcon Global Headquarters and Technology Center provides a cost-effective model of environmental stewardship for suburban office buildings. Rather than dominating the site, the building is knit back into the landscape, creating a multi-ecosystem environment which replicates native Pennsylvania habitats. LEED standards measure environmental performance of the project, and both the design and corporate policies innovatively integrate sustainability into the on-going life of the entire community.